Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid.
The appointed grain offering and drink offering that accompanied an animal sacrifice was to be prepared in the same prescribed way for each animal, whether for one bullock, for one ram, for one lamb, or for one kid or young goat. That acceptable rule stands among the various laws given in the chapter.
Those accompanying regulations were temporary provisions adapted to Israel in the wilderness and suited to that people, time, and surroundings. They do not belong to the eternal constitution of divine government in the Ten Commandments, nor to the unrepealable moral precepts growing out of them. Sin committed in ignorance or unintentionally is still sin, and it must have atonement made or the sin remains. A person may sin and not know it at the time, but when the sin becomes known he is counted guilty and must bring the appointed offering for a bullock, a ram, a lamb, or a kid in order to be forgiven.
The same chapter shows Sabbath-breaking to be sin abhorrent to God. It records the special and flagrant case of presumptuous sin against the fourth commandment, when a man in defiance gathered sticks on the Sabbath and was stoned. That act was not mere transgression but open, daring, Heaven-defying defiance of God.
The appointed grain offering and drink offering that accompanied an animal sacrifice was to be prepared in the same prescribed way for each animal, whether for one bullock, for one ram, for one lamb, or for one kid or young goat. That acceptable rule stands among the various laws given in the chapter.
Those accompanying regulations were temporary provisions adapted to Israel in the wilderness and suited to that people, time, and surroundings. They do not belong to the eternal constitution of divine government in the Ten Commandments, nor to the unrepealable moral precepts growing out of them. Sin committed in ignorance or unintentionally is still sin, and it must have atonement made or the sin remains. A person may sin and not know it at the time, but when the sin becomes known he is counted guilty and must bring the appointed offering for a bullock, a ram, a lamb, or a kid in order to be forgiven.
The same chapter shows Sabbath-breaking to be sin abhorrent to God. It records the special and flagrant case of presumptuous sin against the fourth commandment, when a man in defiance gathered sticks on the Sabbath and was stoned. That act was not mere transgression but open, daring, Heaven-defying defiance of God.